Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although salt and baking soda has been a remedy for burns for many years, nobody had suggested that it could be substituted for plasma injections. The present findings are based on a four-year study of burn victims conducted by U.S. and Peruvian researchers in Lima. If administered within three hours after injury, the scientists found, the saline solution (two teaspoons of table salt to one of baking soda in two quarts of water) acts just as effectively as plasma in warding off shock. The victim may drink as many as seven quarts of the solution in the first twelve...
...just about over. But onstage famed Bandleader Duke Ellington, a trace of coldness rimming his urbanity, refused to recognize the fact. He announced one of his 1938 compositions, Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue. A strange, spasmodic air, that carried memories of wilderness and city, rose through the salt-scented night air like a fire on a beach. Minutes passed. People turned back from the exits; snoozers woke up. All at once the promise of new excitement revived the dying evening...
...ladies reigned once again this week over West Berlin's Dahlem Museum. Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come") is the museum's most popular treasure, along with Rembrandt s Man with a Golden Helmet, and she has been away a long time. Cached for safekeeping in a salt mine during World War II, she was found by U.S. troops and warehoused in Wiesbaden. Not until this summer was Nefertete wrapped in tissue paper, put in a nest of boxes filled with ground cork and gingerly brought back to her air-conditioned glass case m the museum...
Dump No. 1 is the latest strike in the old Pierce Junction salt dome, where wells are pushing ever closer to Houston's city limits. For more than three decades prospectors in Pierce Junction made occasional strikes at conservative depths of 2,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. Then, in 1949, Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy dared to go deeper, brought in a well from between 7,000 ft. and 8,000 ft. But McCarthy did not follow through. Not until lesser-known Wildcatter E. C. Scurlock brought home a deep payload late in 1954 did the Pierce Junction boom begin...
Died. Ab Jenkins, 73, bronzed, white-haired iron man of auto endurance trials (his last record: 118.37 m.p.h. for 24 hours in a stock Pontiac-TIME, July 9), onetime mayor (1940-44) of Salt Lake City (before he took office he changed his name legally from David Abbott to Ab, to twit critics who said he needed more dignity); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Among Ab Jenkins' unbroken records: 200 miles at 195.85 m.p.h., 1,000 miles at 172.83 m.p.h., 3,000 miles at 165.76 m.p.h...